Gluing Top Planks together

The next stage was to arrange and glue the top planks together and then the bottom planks. The planks all are about 10’ in length and you arrange them into how you would like to see your finished board. Grain had given me some nice timbers so I think mine turned out the best I could get with the cut woods given. The finished article will probably turn out much better when all sanded and varnished etc but I just can’t see it myself at the moment. From these photos you can't really see the true grains due to lighting, wet glue and probably poor camera shots. As you will also notice, an important device is the clamp. I still never had enough but just had to make do or come up with ideas. The bar clamps can run pricey, I got 4 of them costing about €30 each, ouch! and I had over 20 spring clamps, still not enough for some later stages.